Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.009117508232505234
- Coordinates
- RA 96.1497° · Dec -22.8383°
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Key facts
- Right ascension
- 06h 25m 39s
- Declination
- -22° 51’ 13”
- Type
- Spiral (SAbc)
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Distance from Earth
- 40.78
- Image
- NGC 2223 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 18978
- redshift
- 0.009076
- radial velocity
- 2716
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-01-23
- apparent magnitude
- 8.849
- galaxy morphological type
- SBbc
- right ascension
- 96.1495208
- declination
- -22.8382500
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 2223
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2223 is a spiral galaxy located 105.9 million light years from Earth in the constellation of Canis Major.
The galaxy was host to a supernova that was named SN 1993K.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2223” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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